Note to the *itch on the left with the sign My Body my choice. The only choice you have is to get your tubes tied. Live with it.
Posted on 05/06/2022 6:02:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will hold a vote on a bill codifying abortion's legality so that voters, he contends, can "see where every senator stands." Though Schumer believes this is a political slam dunk for Democrats, it presents a magnificent opportunity for Republicans to make their case.
Though many conservatives have rightly avoided prematurely celebrating Justice Samuel Alito's draft decision, many also seem frightened of debating the underlying issue. Indeed, the draft leak is a significant assault on the system, but no more so than Roe v. Wade. For 50 years, our culture and media have treated this flawed decision as right and rite.
Surely, most of the public isn't aware of the maximalist position staked out by the establishment Left. Republicans should take the opportunity to point out that even if they were moderately pro-choice, they couldn't possibly support Schumer's barbaric bill, which legalizes abortion for any reason on demand until the moment of birth. They should follow that up by noting that Democrats, including the president, also want taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions, including the late-term variety.
Passing Schumer's bill would likely translate into thousands of viable babies being dismembered for nothing more than convenience. (Well, thousands more than the approximately 10,000 already killed yearly in late-term abortions.) A floor debate would be a good time to point out that there is no bill preventing doctors from saving the life of the mother. Indeed, medical literature shows that third-trimester abortions are very rarely performed for "maternal health complications or lethal fetal anomalies discovered late in pregnancy," as the anti-abortion Charlotte Lozier Institute reported. The pro-choice Guttmacher Institute found that a majority of women who seek late-term abortions "do not do so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment."
Republicans might want to ask their Democrat colleagues what, if any, limitations on abortion they believe should be instituted. When Fox News' Bret Baier pressed former pro-lifer Tim Ryan, now the Democrat senatorial candidate in Ohio (and who is often portrayed as moderate by the media), on whether he believed in any limitations on abortion, he answered, "You got to leave it up to the woman." Why does congressman Ryan believe it is "up to the woman" to decide whether a human being lives or dies one minute before crowning but not one minute after? I'm sure I'm not the only person interested in hearing why Democrats believe that it's "reproductive justice" to dispose of children such as Lyla Stensrud, born at 21 weeks and four days and weighing just 14.4 ounces.
A floor debate would be a good time to remind everyone that, in 2019, Senate Democrats blocked Republican Ben Sasse's effort to obtain unanimous consent on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that wasn't technically about abortion but about protecting babies who survived the surgical procedure.
And when Democrats meld their racial-grievance rhetoric with their "bodily autonomy" arguments, someone should ask them, "Why do you believe it's OK for abortion factories to target minority communities? Do you share Margaret Sanger's racist position on Black children? Are you OK with sex-selective abortions? If not, why not? Are you OK with abortionists eradicating people with non-life-threatening fetal abnormalities such as Down syndrome for the convenience of the customers -- and it should be stressed, in most cases this means the father as well as mother -- a policy that is properly called eugenics?"
A floor debate would be a good chance to point out the lies spread about "forced abortions," ectopic pregnancy and bans against contraception, and also to remind voters that Democrats want to strip medical workers of conscience rights and compel them to participate in abortions.
Of course, I'm not naive. Most abortion advocates won't answer, and the media won't ask. When does life begin? Maybe a Democrat will finally have an answer. Or maybe the question will remain above their "pay grade," as former President Barack Obama, who spearheaded abortion radicalization, once said. As it stands, the Left's position is that only the mother (no longer referred to as a "birthing person" or "chest feeder") can answer such questions. This isn't merely unscientific; it is morally indefensible. It's why abortion activists have been forced to use a slew of euphemisms -- "bodily autonomy" and "reproductive rights" -- to avoid describing the unpleasant realities and consequences of the deadly surgical procedure they champion.
But now that SCOTUS might overturn Roe, Democrats will no longer be allowed to silence debate by claiming that abortion is inarguably a constitutional right. They should be compelled to make arguments -- perhaps not in solid-blue states, but on the national stage. So far, they seem utterly unprepared for that debate -- which makes Republicans' tepid response to the possible ending of Roe even more inexplicable.
Note to the *itch on the left with the sign My Body my choice. The only choice you have is to get your tubes tied. Live with it.
They GOP welcomes anything they can do to help the Dems avoid a wipeout in 2022.
The GOP loves being in the minority by a thin margin. No responsibility, close enough to taking power to get donations, but the ability to claim their inaction is due to being a minority.
I saw that POS Scalise on FBN this morning, had to turn it off.
Schumer is right about the debate part. This should have always been a national debate, with the power to the people. That means, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. This debate should happen on a state to state basis. Power to the people, not head of the Senate.
Any law, passed by Congress, will be challenged by the State’s as a State Right. X Amendment. Alito’s opinion summary made it clear, power to the people to decide. Schumer didn’t get the message.
I have no problem with the debate, never did.
ROE was not part of the debate it was an appalling act of judicial activism and an affront to the constitution.
Abortion has now been returned to where it should have been all along, the legislatures.. and the legislative process will continue, as it should have from the beginning.
The real reason that left is going nuts is not about abortion, its because MOST of their agenda over the last 60 years has not occurred legislatively because they can’t pass laws to promote their agenda... and they know it, so they have relied on judicial activism to push their aims... Roe is one of the most egregious examples of judicial activism, but it is hardly the only one.
THe left knows that most of what they have done to America in the last 6 decades is at risk, because all their unconstitutional judicial activist decisions are likely to be overturned.
Thinks like “freedom of religion” being interpreted as “freedom from religion”, etc. Pray in schools, no religion in the public square, etc etc.. all of these insane rulings from the 60s and 70s are going to be struck down and they know it.
Not having a state sponsored religion does not mean that religion is banned from public life of location... etc...
They know this, so they are going to do everything they can to try to intimidate the court for future decisions... in any way they can... these people are EVIL.
The debate is effectively over.
Abortion is murder.
Debate ends.
What?!?
Has medical science recently perfected spinal and testicular transplants?
I think it’s great that these women are protesting the Government’s unconstitutional policy of forced COVID-19 vaccinations.
DEBATE as defined in the Dictionary does not exist in situations dealing with American Left-turds.
Twitter and Abortion. Twin Crown Jewels of April and May 2022 and thorne in the DNC eye.
The democrats cannot see clear of their anger. They are so far from God’s vision of man. They act like animals. They are cunning, spiteful, sanction murder and engage in racism daily as preconditions for membership in the DNC Big Tent.
“it presents a magnificent opportunity for Republicans to make their case”
Agreed
Make the case, out in the open, pictures, video and everything.
How long have we been debating this now. Endless debate is how you keep from reaching conclusions and how you forestall any effective action.
Good timing, around primary time. We can see who the squishies are in the republican party.
Did Kavanaugh get drunk at a bar and lose his briefcase with Alito ‘s draft included in the contents?
What do you have against him btw?
Nothing. It was in The New Yorker but I haven’t seen another source. Asking because I thought you or someone here would know.
That is the issue, and “When does murder begin?” is the question they should be on record for answering.
I do not dispute your point.
However, if all you want to do is get an overwhelming support from even liberal Dems in any debate you only have to stake out the position (now) of timing.
What is abominable is some states saying that abortion up to and after birth is OK. So, just back that up to not past first trimester. Any pregnant (and self ware) person knows by that time. DECIDE. If you miss the deadline you are in for the ride.
The debate will occur in state legislatures.
No, the draft leak is a correction of a significant assault on the system.
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